Medicine tray



Patented Dec. 7, 1926.

UNITED STATES 1,609,671' PATENT OFFICE.

ABIGIL KERR STEUART, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

MEDICINE TRAY.

Application led ctober 7, 1925. Serial No. 61,114.

This invention` relates to certain new and useful improvements in sick-bed accessories, and it has for its object amongothersto provide -a simple, cheap and efi-cient'portable device that can be moved from place to place as may be desired and which shall be most convenient for holding diferent articlesv such as are generally required by a sick person, either at thehospital or at home, and which will readily and detachably hold such arti-v cles as a water glass, a medicine glass, thermometer, medicine dropper, medicine bottle, spoon, watch, electric lamp and any such articles as usually-required by a sick person.

The device embodies a portable tray of any suitable material, having a.back rising therefrom, means being provided upon the,`

tray and the back for holding such articles as those above enumerated, permitting of their being readily removed when it is desired to use any or all of them.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear and the novel featuresthereof will be specifically defined by the appended claim.

The invention is. clearly illustrated in theing the surrounding flange 2 upon the front side and the two ends, While rising from the rear side is the back portion 3. The tray and its back may be made of any suitable material, preferably metal, in one piece, and enameled, for an obvious purpose. It may be of any required dimensions.

@n the tray, preferably near the centre is a stand or clamp 4 having a plurality of springcclamp members 5 adapted to embrace and hold the base 6 of an electric lamp 7 'Upon the base, upon either side of the centre lamp are the clamp. members 8 and 9, shown as of different sizes so as to hold a drinking glass 10 and a medicine glass 11, see `Figure 1.

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Upon the back portion 3 are shown `vari ous hooks, clamps and holders of various sorts, which may be varied at will, for the purpose of holding a Watch, on a hook 13 of any suitable character, a medicine dropper 14, held bythe pair of clamps 15, a thermometer 16 held by the clamps 17 of which there are shown a plurality, the lower one of which has a supporting portion 18 within which the lower end of the thermometer rests to prevent its dropping through, while 19 is a bottle containing medicine held inthe clamps 2O which as shown lclearly in Figure 2 are' made rectangular in form so as to grasp the bottle, the free ends of the side members of these clamps being inturned seen at 21'so as to firmly grasp the bottleI and prevent its accidental displacement.

22 are spring clamps for holding a spoon 23. The tray proper serves as a support for Aany small articles that the person may desire to have handy for use for any purpose, the flanges preventing displacement of such articles. i

The device is readily portable and will be found a'most convenient accessory to the sick room, or for other uses.

It is deemed important that all of the articleholding means be disposed within the confines of the tray, so that there will be no rotruding parts or danger of any of them ecoming caught in the clothes of the nurse or patient, and further, by reason of the disposition of the clamps 4, 8 and 9. along the longitudinal centre of the bottom of the tray there is 'practically no liability of the tray tilting or `upsetting as it is carried What is claimed as new is As an improved article Cf manufacture,

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a medicine tray embodying a tray proper with a surrounding iange and a back rising from the rear of the tray, a Ymultiplicity of articleholding members on said back, and a multiplicity of article-holding clamps of varying sizes disposed along the longitudinal centre of the tray bottom and all said article holding means being disposed wit-hin the confines, of the tray.

In testimony whereof I hereuntov affix my signature. f

ABIGAIL KERR STEUART. 

